The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-03-28
THE C0RONET WINS
TnE GREAT ocEAN YACHT RACE
In Little Over Fourteen Days Tlmo After
an Exceedingly Rough Voyage Some
Marrow Escnpss-An Interesting
Log OF tho Peril0us Journey.

LONDON, March 27.-The' Coronet ar.
rived Of Q1eenstown at 1880 O'Clock
this morning. Nothing had been seen ol
the Dauntless. The Coronet passed the
winning point at 1850 o'clock under q full
prees Of canvas, the wind at that hour be.
Ing weat-northwest and fresh. In passing
the given line, Roche's point, the victori.
ous yacht fred five guns and the time was
at once taken by the secretary and dfnem.
bers Of the Royal Cork Yacht Club, who
had been on the lookout for her arrival.
The club then hoisted signal announcing
the Coronst'a arrival, the various stations
answering the pennant. The Coronet
entered Cork harbor in spanking style and
hugging the western shore. From the
start to the tlniah the Coronet ex xperlenced
strong gales with tremendous seas. On
Tuesday and Wednesday last she hove TO
for several hours each day and made only
ninety miles In the forty.elght hours.
Her average run during the passage varied
from two hundred and thirty to two hun.
dred and fifty miles day.
Tho Coronet arrived at l2 al r. N. The
apparent time occupied In the passage
is II days % hours 81 minutes 40 seconds,
and the actual time, computed on the
Greenwich basis, IA days 10 hours 8 min.
utes IA seconds. The whole number OF
nautical miles sailed Is 2,940. The longest
days run Is 20l miles, made on Satur.
day, March 20, and the shortest 3s s miles,
made on Tuesday, March %. The wealth.
was uucommonly stormy, even for this
season Of the year. No less than seven
heavy gales contrived to keep the sea in q
foment for eleven days Of the trip, and for
two days the weather was 60 severe as to
make the question Of the yachts living
through them some what doubtful. She
behaved splendidly, however, in all kinds
Of weather, and proved herself one OF the
staunchest, II not one Of the fastest vessels
OF her type ailoat.
ROUGH VOYAGE BUT NO ACCIDENTS.
No accidents happened to any Of the
sailors, despite the great risks they were
compelled to undertake at times. With
the exception OF the torn sails aud little
broken tackle, everything on board the
boat was in as good shape when the an
chor was dropped of Queenstown as when
1t was raised of Tompkinsville, Staten
Island. It is thought that much quicker
passage might have been made had Cap
tain Crosby carried more sail. On several
occasions, when the wind was light but
the sky threatening, he was very cautious
and his judgment was controlled largely
by the barometer which was much of the
time below 90 and seldom above 30 the
nominal height in the latitude traveraed.
The course was made a little more north
erly than was thought safe, but fortu-
nstely no ice bergs or field ice were en-.
countered. Gaa
Ths number Of persona on board the
Coronet was twenty.nine, including six.
teen sailors, five officers, the steward,
cook, mees boy and FIVE guaats. The otli.
GERS were: Captain, @. P. Crosby; navi-
gator T. B. Anderson; mates, W. 4.
Whittier and Otto Peterson; boatswain,
Augustus Bergholm. The advantage
gained by the Coronet at the start in
creased the confidence Of those on board
in both boat and skippers. Itwas the fret
time that Captain Crosby had ever par
|ticipsted in yacht race Of any sort. He
freely admitted that he feared that Cspt.
Samuels Of the Dauntless, with his past
experience, would succeed in crossing the
starting line somewhat ahead. How need
legs these apprehensions were ia already
known. Itis not too much to say that in
his manouyering he displayed more judg.
ment and tact than is usually seen in races
near New York.
:. coRosEr's GOOD START.